These pictures remind me of a story my boss told me. He was having a horrible time getting rid of a P. americana infestation. So finally he decided to go down into this old houses crawl space. Inside he found a forgotten stash of dozens of pounds of potatoes harvested two years prior. With thousands of roaches tunneled all through them.

A narcoleptic classmate of mine wondered for about a year why he had a bad gnat problem. He fogged his apartment multiple times to no avail. Then Thanksgiving came and he opened the oven and found... the turkey he cooked last year.

A narcoleptic classmate of mine wondered for about a year why he had a bad gnat problem. He fogged his apartment multiple times to no avail. Then Thanksgiving came and he opened the oven and found... the turkey he cooked last year.

LOL!

Also, that's pretty gross, did he not smell the turkey lmao? I mean, if the flies can find their way out of the oven, so should the odor of rotting flesh...

You should get some Periplaneta brunnea! They are pretty and aren't likely to infest your house as much as other Periplanetas!

Those look nice, however the only Periplaneta species I have any interest in breeding are P.japonica and P.americana "White-Eye x Black".

Even those I'm doubtful of keeping though, my mom would go BALLISTIC if we had a roach infestation, that's the one restriction on roaches she's given me, nothing that infests houses. And I wouldn't be too thrilled about an infestation either TBH.

To be fair, the chance of getting a Periplaneta infestation in Idaho is probably nonexistent, I've never seen any up here, probably too arid. But I'm not sure it's worth the risk...

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Up north here in Pennsylvania there is commonly only 4 pest species, Periplaneta americana, Blatta orientalis, Blattella germanica and Supella longipalpa. The only one that really lives in homes beyond the odd damp basement or boiler room is Blattella germanica. So other than keeping them there is little concern of infestation. I've kept most of the known Periplaneta species over the part 6 or 7 years and never once felt concerned. I wish I started with them like 10 years ago when I first started keeping roaches. Lol.

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Up north here in Pennsylvania there is commonly only 4 pest species, Periplaneta americana, Blatta orientalis, Blattella germanica and Supella longipalpa. The only one that really lives in homes beyond the odd damp basement or boiler room is Blattella germanica. So other than keeping them there is little concern of infestation. I've kept most of the known Periplaneta species over the part 6 or 7 years and never once felt concerned. I wish I started with them like 10 years ago when I first started keeping roaches. Lol.

Exactly, they aren't as robust as the hype portrays them. I've never seen them up north.

I doubt the Australian roaches could even survive long term outside their cages in more northern states, unless there were mitigating circumstances, like a greenhouse or many potted plants for example...

@All About Insects You will be fine, unless you deliberately try to assist them outside their cages lol.